The Magnetic Fields

The Status Ain't Hood Valentine's Day Playlist

M83 Tonight at Bowery Ballroom

Interview: Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt

Puss-Coital Dirty Pop-Rappers Menya Play CMJ, Still Work That Christgau Professor Connection

Live: Yo La Tengo (With Stephin Merritt, Britt Daniels, and Ira's Mom) at Maxwell's

Live: All Eight Nights of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo

photo by Liz Clayton Dawn Sutter Madell, via the Yo La Tengo diary Eight shows, eight-and-a-half comedians, eight charities, eight mix CDs, 24 sit-ins, and three Velvet Underground covers later, Yo La Tengo brought another Hanukkah at Maxwell's to a close. But, as befits a band named in reference ... More >>

ROMANCE & ILLUSION

M83, live from outer space

LOUDEN UP NOW

!!! make dance music

The Boys of CMJ

Starring Mission of Burma, and, uh, the Women

Murder Mystery: Uh-oh, Love Comes to Town

The appealingly jaundiced cynicism of a pop band with a soul and a brain

A Thousand I's

Stephin Merritt modestly submerges his first person under the ninth letter of the alphabet

Are You In Love?

Rock stars, dating experts, and cartoon characters talk about Valentine's Day

Misanthropic Fields Forever

A delightful chat with the delightfully sardonic Stephin Merritt

The 1999 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll

A delightful chat with the delightfully sardonic Stephin Merritt

The Great Cover-up, Part 2

A delightful chat with the delightfully sardonic Stephin Merritt

Summer of 69

A delightful chat with the delightfully sardonic Stephin Merritt

Easy Money

A delightful chat with the delightfully sardonic Stephin Merritt

As Hundreds Cheer

The Glum Triumph of The Magnetic Fields

Flak On Both Sides

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Diphthong Songs

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Smooth Sailing: Cruising for Beers at This Former Sailor Bar

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

MAGNETIC APPEAL

Town Hall gets distorted with Stephin Merritt & Co.

TUESDAY | 6.3

Town Hall gets distorted with Stephin Merritt & Co.

Mythbusters

Brooklyn dance-punk octet frees minds most adeptly when their mouths are shut

"Nostalgia = Death: Gay Pride, Gay Shame"

Podcast with special guest Jennifer O'Connor

Live: Let's Go Yell Dopey Shit at Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 15 Let us revel in these times, wherein two goofy-looking New Zealand dudes can sell out Radio City and take the stage in chintzy robot costumes to perform the song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor," which ends prematurely when Bret ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Is it Trekalicious? Or Trek Jerky? Robert Wilonsky weighs in on the Star Trek movie, in which Spock is a "tormented youth in revolt." Ward Sutton does the funny cartoon version. We're accustomed to think of William Thompson as Mr. Clean. But he's a friend of William Howell, and as city comptrol ... More >>

On the Surprisingly Sexy Video to Pink Mountaintops's "Execution"

Pink Mountaintops released the ridiculously gorgeous Outside Love back in May, the band's third LP. On it, bandleader and Black Mountain moonlighter Stephen McBean pulled a last album Magnetic Fields trick, making a Jesus & Mary Chain record with all the wrong instruments. But Outside Love is more ... More >>

Stream Realism, the Newest from Magnetic Fields, or Watch the Stephin Merritt Documentary Premiering in San Francisco Next Month

​It's our experience that Stephin Merritt is far more open about his life and work than people seem to give him credit for, but those who've found him impenetrable in the past will now have another way to get to know him--via documentary. The as-yet-untitled, 10-years-in-the-works film, direct ... More >>

Feigning Sincerity With the Magnetic Fields

Realism only pretends to be honest, but it's a hootenanny nevertheless

Here Is the Trailer for the Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields Documentary

Seems that the long awaited and slaved over Stephin Merritt documentary now has both a name and a trailer. Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields is set to debut at the San Francisco Film Society, February 28th, and will hopefully then eventually make its way to New York, where so ... More >>

So Was Lil Wayne's Rebirth a Modest Success Or a Total Commercial Failure? Maura Johnston Reads the Charts

"Billboard's 'Tastemakers' chart is the one we should all paying attention to, don't you think?"​This week's Billboard 200 is headed once again by Lady Antebellum, the milquetoast country trio whose second album Need You Now moved 481,000 copies in its debut week, and 209,000 copies in the sal ... More >>

This Weekend! Justice, Harlem, Phantogram, Blank Dogs, The Magnetic Fields, Beach Fossils, The Beets, Suckers, Rain Machine, and Neon Indian

​While the city's alt-bros are locked up in Terminal 5 for a Justice DJ set and the subsequent Ed Banger 7th Anniversary Party, you can be crawling around in the cavernous Monster Island. There, the scuzzy (Frankie Rose and the Outs), the scuzzier (Harlem), and the scuzziest (Stupid Party) wil ... More >>

This Weekend! The Very Best, Theophilus London, Foreign Born, Woods, Real Estate, Magnetic Fields, The National, Sundelles, Darlings, Total Slacker, PC Worship, B.I.G. Karaoke, Stupid Party, and Truman Peyote

"You better buy a ticket and get your ass to Mars," advises the wise Johnny Loftus. He is, of course, speaking in reference to the latest installment of The Fader's "One Step Beyond" series, which takes place in the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space. There, you c ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife

​The Arms Around Haiti event at Public Assembly kicks off our Friday evening with a reminder that just because there haven't been any telethons lately doesn't mean the situation isn't just as awful as it ever was. The event spans over both rooms of the venue and boasts a lineup of over ten dis ... More >>

Presenting The Ultimate Record Store Day Guide: See Some Music, Buy Some Music, Or Make Your Own

​It's that special time of the year again: Record Store Day, which is like Teacher Appreciation Day for independent record stores. Saturday, to celebrate their tenacity, among other things, record stores around the city are holding performances, releasing exclusives, and offering once-in-a-blu ... More >>

Peter Gabriel

​It's that special time of the year again: Record Store Day, which is like Teacher Appreciation Day for independent record stores. Saturday, to celebrate their tenacity, among other things, record stores around the city are holding performances, releasing exclusives, and offering once-in-a-blu ... More >>

Tonight! Andrew W.K. With Angel Deradoorian (She Of Dirty Projectors), Fester (He Of The Addams Family), And Peter Gabriel

​This is your Monday night: Choose from Andrew W.K., Fester from the Addams Family, and Peter Gabriel, a confluence slightly more random than M.I.A. provoking ginger genocide last week. At Santos Party House, W.K. and friends (including Angel Deradoorian of Dirty Projectors) are uniting for th ... More >>

ONE QUESTION

How many songs will Jeff Mangum do?

Q&A: Director Kerthy Fix Talks Strange Powers, Her New Documentary About Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields

"That I can go to Google and the third thing that comes up "Is Stephin Merritt a racist because he doesn't like hip-hop?" It was so wrong and immoral, and it had never fully been cleared up." A generation of terrified journalists and collaborators will tell you that Stephin Merritt is a fundament ... More >>

Week in Review: May Day

Salute. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week we finally got to unleash the initial Siren Festival details on the world (July 17! 10th anniversary! Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Harlem! Totally free!), we celebrated Cinco De Mayo like Anna Wintour, Pharrell, a ... More >>

Wild Rabbits Take Over Canadian Campus

Via Boing Boing comes this shaky 30 second cell phone video of a bunch of feral rabbits just chillin' on the grounds of the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Apparently, their nonstop sex has become a problem as 2,000 of these adorable bunnies tear up the lawn at the Canadian school. Acc ... More >>

Tonight! Phosphorescent, Strange Powers, Softspot, And Unsolved Mysteries

Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck, a/k/a the bro who sat for Da Vinci one time. ​Tonight, Phosphorescent, the only country warblers ever to dedicate a song to Coney Island's fleshy Mermaid Parade, celebrate the release of their new album at Other Music. In last week's Yes in My Backyard installme ... More >>

!!! Do Berlin

Dance-punk hedonists seek closure, more hedonism

The 6 Best Things You Can Bid On From WFMU's Benefit Auction

Inside the WFMU archives.​It's fundraising time again for awesome local freeform radio station WFMU, and rather than do another fall marathon, music festival, record fair, or art benefit, the station has organized an online auction, with all proceeds going to support the beloved and increasing ... More >>

Announcing the Village Voice/Redeye Distribution 2010 CMJ Day Party, Featuring Marnie Stern, Hooray For Earth, and a Special Secret Guest

Marnie Stern at the Rock Shop last week. Photo by Harvilla.​Because why not add to the general mayhem that will be sweeping the Lower East Side starting Tuesday of next week? We are pleased to announce the Voice will be teaming with Redeye Distribution to sponsor CMJ day party this year, featu ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Dan Choi, Bad Lieutenant

​Lt. Daniel Choi resembles so many other American soldiers in many, many ways: as a late 20s West Point grad who loves his country, a born-again Christian, as a soldier who's served two tours in Iraq, and as a soldier who's been kicked out of the military. But even that isn't the distinguishment t ... More >>

The Stephin Merritt Mystery Unsolved in Strange Powers

​Lt. Daniel Choi resembles so many other American soldiers in many, many ways: as a late 20s West Point grad who loves his country, a born-again Christian, as a soldier who's served two tours in Iraq, and as a soldier who's been kicked out of the military. But even that isn't the distinguishment t ... More >>

Feeling that Last Night of Summer in The Myth of the American Sleepover

​Lt. Daniel Choi resembles so many other American soldiers in many, many ways: as a late 20s West Point grad who loves his country, a born-again Christian, as a soldier who's served two tours in Iraq, and as a soldier who's been kicked out of the military. But even that isn't the distinguishment t ... More >>

Tanya Donelly

​Lt. Daniel Choi resembles so many other American soldiers in many, many ways: as a late 20s West Point grad who loves his country, a born-again Christian, as a soldier who's served two tours in Iraq, and as a soldier who's been kicked out of the military. But even that isn't the distinguishment t ... More >>